Evicted from his home as a result of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict, Abgar stays behind--alone within a gradually shrinking enemy ring--waiting for his daughter who, having witnessed her husband’s murder by an angry mob, has been hospitalized with a trauma disorder.

Abgar is offered work helping with the construction of a mosque by an Azerbaijani named Ibrahim who promises to find and return Abgar's daughter. Within a few days Ibrahim has located the girl in a Baku psychiatric hospitals. Abgar, thinking he and his daughter can now flee the village, discovers that his skills as a stonemason have shackled him to the mosque, and that he is trapped.